Dr. Matthew Stanbrook, deputy editor of CMAJ, interviews Dr. Danielle Martin, family physician and VP of Medical Affairs and Health System Solutions at Women's College Hospital in Toronto (and she made headlines last year when she eloquently defended our healthcare system in front of the US Senate during the Obamacare debate).

Dr. Martin and co-authors (Steven Morgan, Michael Law, Jamie R. Daw, Liza Abraham) say that implementing universal public coverage of prescription drugs in Canada would be estimated to reduce total spending by $7.2 billion while increasing government costs by only $1.0 billion. This economic modeling study shows that universal public drug coverage could be implemented without substantially increasing government spending.

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